21/08/2014

Ambitious for recovery: tackling drug and alcohol addiction in the UK

Centre for Social Justice - This report outlines and forecasts addiction problems in the UK and warns that deaths linked to ‘legal highs’ could overtake those linked to heroin by 2016. Amongst some of the recommendations suggested is a 'treatment tax' which should be added to the cost of alcohol in shops to fund a new generation of rehabilitation centres and stem the tide of Britain's addiction problem.